First initial test done. Dpup Exprimo 5.X.9 has xcompmgr preinstalled. I played a little with this nice gui. Great job all together. This one will be in my next build for sure.
Do you mind if I post this pet also in Exprimo thread. This great gui makes it easy to fiddle with setting.
Thanks of your work and that you provided small sized gui for xcompmgr.

I checked your binaries. Providing gtkdialog4 as separate pet might be good idea. In my puplets and I believe in 01mickos Spups like latest Slacko 5.3 gtkdialog4 is just symlink to the gtkdialog. Unlike Barry Kauler has done.
I have also later version of gtkdialog4 from svn as was in your pet.

Your binaries were not stripped. You get much smaller gtkdialog by stripping it.

As an example I upload here your package as all binaries stripped pet.

Maybe nit picking, but you should mention in requirements of what setup of video is required for this pet to work.
I found it while running macpup520 with no save file and I had not did anything special for the video card so I do not know if I had nv or vesa for my driver.
Anyway, clicking on the installed pet from the menu did nothing and running it from a terminal complained about not finding some gtk stuff.

So does this pet require a proprietary video driver?
Also, what other things need to be preinstalled for it to work?

I have not tried it in Puppy Lucid 520 that I have the factory Nvidia driver installed on.

Your binaries were not stripped. You get much smaller gtkdialog by stripping it.

Very interesting! Did not know this was feasible ... and don't know how this can be done !

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I hope I wont ruin this French language thread with English.

Surely not! But, if you want/prefer, please, post your suggestions to PM...
Thank you for all.

@8-bit
Yes, I noticed that visual effects (xcompmgr, kcompmgr and transset-df) won't work if the appropriate video card driver is not installed! On my PC, I have to install NVIDIA proprietary driver for visual effects to work. On my laptop, this runs 'out of the box' with Toutou 431 - Lucid 5.28, but not with Wary and Quirky. Many libraries are missing too... Perhaps should I try to do special patches for every distribution (later)?
Thank you for feedback...

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I do not think you should have to make special packages for each version of Puppy.
All I was getting at was that a description should say that a proprietary video driver is required and maybe make a supporting PET for those missing library files in some distributions.

I do have to say from looking at the screen shots you have a winner there.

The reason I suggested a PET of the required library files/support files is that tracking down dependencies can be a real pain.

The reason I suggested a PET of the required library files/support files is that tracking down dependencies can be a real pain.

It is something we all have had to do at one time or another.

The best way I personally use to recover these libraries is to launch the application in a terminal and copy/paste, one after the other, missing libraries from the mounted pup.sfs/iso of the Puppy which has got them (for example from Lucid to Wary) and this works as well as possible... Don't know if it is really very 'catholic' as we are used to say in French!

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All I was getting at was that a description should say that a proprietary video driver is required

Argolance. The simplest way to strip binary is....Go to the folder where the binary is and open terminal there and launch command:
strip gtkdialog4
You need to have devx sfs loaded, because devx sfs includes strip binary.
Of course you can launch strip with full path to the stripped binary from anywhere.

Stripping the whole folder of binaries or in different folders, you need more sophisticated script to do it. I have used several, the one I use now came with dpup, made by Iguleder.
Remove the phony .gz, place the script to the /usr/bin for example.
Launch it by strippkg /path/to/the/folder or if you are one folder up of the stripped folder just by strippkg foldername
The folder you want to strip can have many subfolders, all of them will be scanned and binaries stripped, also the libs will be stripped with suitable parameter.
You might need to replace the executable permissions for the script after you have downloaded it.

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